Dead Lions
The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 2)
Author: Mick Herron Series: Slough House Thriller
Dead Lions is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies, led by Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)
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Dead Lions is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies, led by Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)
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Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman
'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on SundayFrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now.On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial TimesCritic Reviews
Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: .
The finest new crime series this Millennium Mail on Sunday
Mick Herron is the real deal Irish Times
I can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next Crime Fiction Lover
Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years Metro
Herron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton Sunday Telegraph
Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today Publishers Weekly
Delightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh Sunday Times
About the Author
Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, two CWA Daggers, been published in twenty-five languages, and are the basis of a major TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoe Boehm series, and the standalone novels Nobody Walks and The Secret Hours. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
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